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Finals Food, Take Two

I feel like going to bed should be a thought that I process soon. But somehow I don't think it is going to be. Somehow I'm wide awake. And I need to shift around huge piles of stuff to get to my bed. Bedtime might be a while in coming. Oh well.

I survived my first full week of real teaching. And I'm momentarily forgetting about teaching and letting myself be a college student again. For two more days.

I passed in 6 inches worth of notebooks today to complete student teaching. It felt so good. And tomorrow starts it all. All the activities associated with becoming a college graduate. I am so excited, fearful, thankful, and wide-eyed all at once. This almost doesn't seem real. Actually, it doesn't feel real yet at all. I don't know when it will.

So, I seem to remember that last semester's finals brought a food epiphany. I seem to think that this semester brought one too. Except this one was more out of necessity than anything else. I had a coupon at one point for some of those new fruit-crisp-in-a-cup thingies. It's basically really sweet canned fruit with an oatmeal topping. It's good stuff, don't get me wrong, but it's no homemade apple crisp.

Anyway, I have a lot of bread-like items and eggs to use up . . . well, in the one more meal I am eating here. And so last night I made French toast while NES made a quesadilla to use up other items sitting in the fridge.

But, after making plain old French toast, I decided to use one of the fruit crisps on top of it. Hey, it's like fruit-topped French toast from a restaurant. With sugary-oatmeal topping.

I'll admit, for the I'm-desperate-to-use-up-food meal that it was, it was pretty fancy. And tasty.

I love to bake. And make cupcakes. And take pictures. I like cooking, too.
But I'm in grad school, and math is my life. I am also a new wife. NES is my new co-conspirator, at least for cooking! And I have someone to bake for! We also finally have our own real kitchen! I cook and bake when I can. I thought that time was tight in college, but I'm learning there are different definitions of lack of time. Thyme is my favorite herb, though. So it all evens out?